About Our L&D Advisors
The World Doesn’t Need More L&D Consultants
Nothing suits a firm dedicated to improving performance like an inspiration born from those who’ve supported our founder and his career performance the most: his mother and wife.
Kay/Allison was founded because we saw a fundamental gap in how learning and development consultants serve professional services firms and other industries. Most L&D-focused advisory firms stop at program design, building to client specifications or thinking in limited modules and courses. They tiptoe to the edge of client client-generated spec. Where they stop, we continue—by ensuring care for business drivers generally, but laser focus on three profit drivers: retention, time to employee value, and billing, and scaling growth.
While other consultants deliver what you ask for, we focus on what you actually need. We bring together Big 4 experience with small-firm agility, combining strategic rigor with a refreshingly direct approach. We’re low on consulting speak, and loathe to tell you merely what you want to hear. No sugar-coating, just practical solutions that have worked in the past and will continue to work for you going forard.
Our Approach to Helping Midsized Firms
What Makes Our L&D Consultants Different
Human-Centered Approach
We believe great business results start with understanding people, processes, and technology—but just as importantly, the culture and leader personas behind them. Our approach blends empathy with accountability, recognizing that sustainable change happens when employees feel supported, not just trained. The best strategies come from honest conversations with leaders, managers, and staff facing real challenges, which is why we listen first and whiteboard later.
Business-Driven Results
Many consultants offering learning solutions focus on the solution’s transactional impact. We are business advisors that happen to specialize in talent and people-oriented solutions as our experts. Our solutions directly target three of the main profit drivers that keep leaders up at night: employee retention, time-to-productivity, and scaling capacity. We don’t just build programs—we build competitive advantages that show up in your financial statements. Theory is nice, might even pay the bills and keep the lights on. We’d rather drive your profit.
Customized Learning & Development Solutions
You’ll notice there’s no section on our site filled with presumed solutions. We could highlight e-learning design, coaching and mentoring, social learning, global communities of practice, even podcasts, but we’re not a hammer searching for a nail, and we’re not here to charge an arm and a leg for so-called “bespoke learning solutions.” Instead, our approach is straightforward: we listen, identify the real business need, account for practical constraints, and build from there.
About Josh LeFebvre
Meet Our Founder
Josh LeFebvre brings over 25 years of learning and development leadership from the trenches of professional services, accounting, and consulting industries as well as other industries like construction, engineering, and oil & gas. After building and scaling learning functions at major firms, including executive roles with budgets reaching $15M and teams spanning continents, he saw an opportunity to bring that same strategic expertise to growing firms without the full-time price tag.
Key accomplishments:
- Led global learning for Big 4 and top-tier professional services firms
- Developed award-winning programs still in use 15+ years later
- Managed learning transformations impacting thousands of professionals annually
- Specialized in translating business strategy into measurable learning outcomes
- Recognized expert in professional services talent development and retention
His approach is simple: Tell the truth. Root in reality. Focus on what works, and never lose sight of the fact that behind every business challenge is a people challenge waiting to be solved.
L&D Client Testimonials
Clients Who Now See Learning as a Profit Center
“Amazing ability to understand the problem, work across teams, offer innovative solutions, navigate our organization and get things done despite a complicated org structure and competing priorities.”
- Chris M., Global Learning Strategy Leader, Big 4 Audit/Consulting Firm
"Josh seamlessly blended clarity and creativity to enhance talent development, resulting in high engagement and measurable performance gains across 4,000 consulting professionals."
- Jon C., Partner, RSM
“We already had a well established and proven program - so remarkable how we were challenged and supported to do even more!”
- Sarah A., Big 4, US Industry Learning leader